The Ginger Man - Signed Special EditionAs Brendan Behan edited without permission the manuscript that would become The Ginger Man, he predicted that it was destined to go around the world, and beat the bejaysus out of the Bible. Behan got the first part right. Since its first publication in 1955, more than 40 million copies of the novel have been sold and it has brought more (mostly American) tourists to Dublins Trinity College (where it was set) than the Book of Kells. To celebrate its

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the grisly relic remains an object of fascination for countless viewers as it travels the world in exhibitions

sweary dialogue reminiscent of Roddy Doyle

Douthwaite identifies recent changes in public attitudes to growth as the beginnings of an intellectual revolution as far-reaching in its consequences for human survival as those initiated by Copernicus or Darwin in their re-assessment of man’s place in creation

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with essays by leading Dublin Joyceans

tackle many facets of terror

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so that we are in fact becoming a bourgeois nation

of a woman striking out as an artist in a time when there were many barriers

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